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Dairy Alternatives, Plant Milk and Beyond

Fran Costigan - Dairy Alternatives, Plant Milk and Beyond

This event was on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

Today’s profusion of non-dairy options is astonishing, and maybe just a tad confusing. Join Chef Fran, our director of Vegan Pastry at Rouxbe, to explore the vast array of plant milk… Read More.

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Question:

Would most of the desserts listed in your dessert book be easy to substitute sugar with coconut sugar, syrup or honey and still turn out? suggestions for doing that?

— Ann Smith

Answer:

It's a recipe by recipe situation. I use coconut sugar a lot in the course. We learn to grind our sugars because most natural sugars and coconut sugar. Is that are Large Crystal and I want to get them finer. So I kind of rough it up or powder it in my food processor. So works great in chocolate cake in many many desserts. I wouldn't use coconut sugar necessarily in a vanilla cake because of the color I think of coconut sugar. I started out thinking of coconut sugar as a brown sugar substitute because it's got that slight to me slight molasses taste but I use it. I would say it's almost my go to Sugar. So yes, you can I don't use honey. You can't substitute a granulated. sweetener whether it's cane or coconut. with a liquid sweetener without doing a lot of without doing changes since you're here you can access the Library the Live Events Library, I did at least one live event on substituting sweeteners. So you might want to look at that and We go into liquid sweeteners and granulated sweeteners in depth because in this course because it is after all a desserts course. So, you know, I like to say every change makes a difference. I don't like to say it. I will say it because it's the truth. I know that people get aggravated. But you know when I see a recipe that says you as one cup of I don't know how we pastry flour or one cup of gluten-free flour. drives me a little crazy because maybe it'll work and maybe it won't there are changes.

Links:

Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

FranCostigan.com